Being A Parent Is Very Important To

I Always Wanted To Be A Fashion Designer And I Learned Costume Illustration In High School. That Was An Incredible High School. It Was More Like A College. I'm Moving More In That Direction, Just Kind Of Merchandising My Name.

I Have Three Girls, And I Say The Same Thing To Them. I'm Not Involved In Their Careers Because I've Learned That It's Important For Them To Stand On Their Own Two Feet. They'll Feel Better And Prouder Of Themselves If They Do.

I'm Not Really A Songwriter - I'm An Interpreter. So In A Sense I Am An Actress First And Foremost. I Act Out The Songs, And I Lead With My Heart.

For Some Reason, My Main Movie, Lady Sings The Blues, To Me Really Isn't Me. I Really Can Let Go Of Diana Ross When I See The Movie. I'm Really Objective When I'm Watching It. I Liked That Movie So Much. That Movie Was Like Magic So That When I'm Looking At It I'm Really Not Seeing Myself, I'm Seeing The Actress. I'm Seeing Another Person, Not The Me Of Me.

All Of A Sudden I Feel More Womanly, I Feel Like I Got A Figure. I Was Always Really Straight Up And Down, The Skinny One In The Middle, Like That Poster At Elaine's Of The Supremes At Lincoln Center - It Was Done By Joe Eula. To Me That's Really A Reflection Of The Way I Was. I Was Just Like A Bean Pole. Now I'm Getting A Few Curves And I Like It.